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We Are 'Ohana, Songs Of Hope

Hawai'i Island Performing Artists

We Are 'Ohana, Songs Of Hope

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery World / Cultural
Price: $14.99
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Songs and Samples

Oli Aloha/Welcoming Chant (Featuring Kaliko Beamer-Trapp)
Hawaiian Spirit (Featuring James McWhinney)
Hawaiian Soljah (Featuring Bruddah Kuz)
Your Heart Will Lead You Home (Featuring Damon Williams)
Believe (Featuring Faith Rivera)
Soar Above It All (Featuring Rupert Tripp, Jr.)
Kaulana Na Pua (Featuring Keola Beamer & Nona Beamer)
Feel The Beat (Featuring James McWhinney)
Winds Of Change (Featuring Glynn Motoishi)
What Do I Have To Do (Featuring Damon Williams)
The World Is Waiting For You (Featuring Faith Rivera)
Happy Today (Featuring Damon Williams)
Sunny Day (Featuring Howard Shapiro)
Higher Ground (Featuring James McWhinney)
Hope (Featuring James McWhinney & Damon Williams)

Some Nice Things People Have Said

Never have I seen or heard Hawai'i's 'Ice' crisis addressed with such love, compassion and aloha.
- Beth Mehau,
Program Coordinator,
North Hawai'i Drug-Free Coalition

Wow, what an incredible album!
- Tom Averna,
Founder,
Positive Radio Music

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News and Reviews

This compilation CD, which includes several of the Big Island and beyond's most talented singers and musicians, is part of a three-phase project to combat substance abuse and addiction on the Big Island. 'We Are 'Ohana - Songs Of Hope' is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Howard Shapiro, the executive producer, and songwriter/musician/producer Gregg Perry.

'We Are 'Ohana' covers several mostly pop genres, but nine of the fifteen cuts were written or co-written by Perry and Shapiro and this is, put quite simply, in my estimation, the best written, conceived and produced pop CD recorded to date on the Big Island.

Artists include Keola and Nona Beamer, Kaliko Beamer-Trapp, Bruddah Kuz, Faith Rivera, former Big Mountain vocalist James McWhinney, Damon Williams, Living in Question front man Glynn Motoishi, Rupert Tripp, Jr., and Shapiro.

Major surprises include Motoishi singing 'Winds of Change,' a pop-rocker totally unlike LIQ's hard rock; and McWhinney doing a rap on 'Hawaiian Spirit' and singing rock instead of reggae on 'Higher Ground.' Williams' 'Your Heart Will Lead You Home,' an adult contemporary ballad written by Shapiro, is already a local hit. Whether cast against type or typecast, it is all flawlessly executed.

'We Are 'Ohana' is a stunning compilation of much of the island's best talent, coming together to make music and to fight the scourge of drug addiction.

- John Burnett,
Island Beat,
Hawai'i Island Journal

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